Talk:Death doula

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 29 June 2020 and 21 August 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): L. Liu, Future UCSF Pharm.D., Strinh24, Jlee747, Fvillegas, Future UCSF Pharm.D.

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This article is a stub, so I plan to add information to the existing subsections, which each only include one sentence. They are "certification" and "name controversy." Additionally, I plan to add more content related to the death midwife's relation to hospice care and end of life care. As of now, the article hasn't been even vaguely researched, and the topic of a death midwife is treated more as the contrast to a doula or actual midwife in comparison to a stand-alone counselor. There are many untapped sources covering the rising popularity of this subject, for example: http://www.yesmagazine.org/inside-the-alternative-death-care-movement-20150807 https://mic.com/articles/132963/what-it-s-like-to-be-a-death-midwife#.hJ49dglmZ http://inelda.org/ https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/death-midwives-tap-a-growing-market/ (Iimph2017 (talk) 14:35, 24 October 2017 (UTC)) https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/24/your-money/death-doulas-help-the-terminally-ill-and-their-families-cope.html (Iimph2017 (talk) 14:43, 31 October 2017 (UTC))

Foundations II 2020 Group [6] proposed edits

-I would like to add more on hospice careStrinh24 (talk) 21:41, 27 July 2020 (UTC) -I am going to add in more citations, and add any additional/missing info Strinh24 (talk) 21:37, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

Problems with Page

Much of the tone of the article is casual and factually questionable (only certain professionals can file death certificate information). Laws regarding disposition and palliative care vary from state to state, and county to county. The article does not differentiate regulations and laws from different countries, and citations are for different countries and are haphazardly used (i.e. laws and regulations in Canada may not be applicable to US state statues governing. I removed one of the more poorly-sourced, factually unsupported section, but will still need much work.HoundofBaskersville (talk) 19:04, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

"Death Midwife" is a very rarely used name for Death Doula or End-of-Life Doula

The term death midwife is now rarely used to describe the role of a comfort provider for those approaching death and their families after death. A search in Newspapers.com for the names used in 2025 yielded

--218 articles using death doula

--144 articles using end-of-life doula

--1 article mentioning death midwife, in the phrase "death doula or death midwife"

Yet there is no redirection or disambiguation. Riverbend Trail (talk) 23:43, 8 December 2025 (UTC)

"Death doula" has a redirect to death midwife.

I created a redirect from "End-of-life doula" to death midwife.

You can create redirects with Redirect maker.

Lovelano (talk) 00:43, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. I submitted an "uncontroversial technical request" to rename. Will the redirects cause search engines to find the Wikipedia article if the more common names are searched? If so, redirections could resolve the issue. If not, would it make more sense to rename, which I now understand is called moving the article? Riverbend Trail (talk) 01:14, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

Scope question — does this term (either with midwife or doula) get any significant usage as a slur for incompetent midwives, or is the article's current scope the dominant meaning of the term? Today's edition of my metropolitan area's newspaper included a story about a heavily publicised incident in which a woman died, and the midwife has since been prohibited from practising because of her role in the incident; when I saw this at WP:RM/TR, I expected this to be about actual midwives in such situations. Nyttend (talk) 05:56, 10 December 2025 (UTC)

In reviewing a number of news stories and doing a number of word searches on the topic of death or end-of-life doulas, counselors, etc., I've not seen instances where a birth midwife or doula involved in the death of a mother or child was called a death midwife or doula as a slur. This article's discussion about names needs an updating. The names (and organization names) in end of life profession are varied and certainly have evolved away from use of midwife, particularly in the US Riverbend Trail (talk) 17:46, 10 December 2025 (UTC)